Amaravati, February 24, 2026: US AI leaders OpenAI and Anthropic have accused three Chinese firms of large-scale intellectual property theft through “distillation,” a method that copies outputs from advanced models to boost rivals faster and cheaper.
The claims target DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. Reports indicate these companies created thousands of fake accounts to generate millions of interactions with Anthropic's Claude chatbot, bypassing access rules and focusing on strengths like coding and reasoning.
OpenAI raised similar concerns earlier this month about efforts to “free-ride” on American innovations. No direct responses from the accused firms have surfaced publicly.
